A raw retrospective after six years of systems engineering and LLM evolution: why treating AI as an oracle incurs an exponential ‘oracle tax’, and how the systems craftsman uses AI not as an end in itself, but as a grounded exploration lever guided by first principles.
Why AI allows us to revisit Unix foundations from first principles: anatomy of stdout as an interposition bus, and implementing a zero-dependency streaming DLP engine.
A practical breakdown of how I collaborate with LLMs to translate raw engineering notes into structured, bilingual articles without losing human voice or technical accuracy.
Why and how I built a minimalist, lightning-fast static journal using GoHugo, PaperMod, and GitHub Actions, setting up the baseline before moving to self-hosted Ouvrage tools.